Local Brews Local Grooves: 30 Breweries and Live Music at House of Blues

All three rooms at the House of Blues on the famously rockin' Sunset Strip will be taken over by 30 craft beer makers from Los Angeles and beyond at this nighttime festival that pairs the world's oldest fermented beverage with music from some of the top contemporary folk-rock and bluegrass acts and gastropub fare from the venue's in-house kitchen. Local Brews Local Grooves celebrates the indelible connection between beer and music with breweries (like Torrance's Smog City, L.A.'s Golden Road and San Deigo's Stone) pouring their best ales and lagers, and bands (like Fleetwood Mac tribute Rumours and eight-piece indie-folk group Huxlee) providing tunes. Sampling wristbands, which will be available for purchase at the door, allow you to taste through the beer selection, which will take over the main music hall as well as the Crossroads Restaurant and the exclusive Foundation Room.

Reviews & Ratings

The BREWS were awesome but the grooves were not so groovy, with the exception of the Fleetwood Mac cover band Rumors (they were awesome!). For most of the night, I felt like I was at a brewed coffee tasting, as the music was too coffee house for this type of an event. I think having some bands and decent DJs throughout the venue would have been a better choice. This would have been a 5-star event if the music, as advertised in the event's title, were more groovy and less snoozy.

it was a little overpriced. you think, okay, $3 per taster... i guess i can do that... then there are $6 tasters as well?! it was crowded. the bands were okay. cool venue, but impossible to sit down and i had no idea how to get any food.

This was a really fun event. I'm glad we got there in the beginning, however, because by about 10:00 many beers were gone. They also didn't indicate that some samples would cost two tickets instead of one. The pub grub food was very good, and...continued